Bill Text: NY S05683 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Eliminates unreasonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys by preventing landlords from charging tenants more than 110% of the actual cost for the reproduction of such keys.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to housing [S05683 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05683-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5683--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to eliminating unrea- sonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 2 235-i to read as follows: 3 § 235-i. Unreasonable tenant fees for reproductions of keys. A land- 4 lord shall not charge a tenant a fee for the reproduction of keys to a 5 single dwelling greater than one hundred ten percent of the actual cost 6 of reproduction, provided such limitation shall not apply if a tenant 7 requires the reproduction of keys for a single dwelling more than three 8 times in a calendar year. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11488-02-0
